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Patroni Operations – switchover and failover

In this post we will have a look at switchover and failover of a Patroni cluster. As well as a look at the maintenance mode Patroni offers, which gives the opportunity to prevent from an automatic failover.

Creating archived redolog-files in group dba instead of oinstall

Since Oracle 11g files created by the database belong by default to the Linux group oinstall. Changing the default group after creating the central inventory is difficult. In this Blog I want to show how locally created archived redo can(…)

Oracle 19c

Oracle 19c has been released quite a while ago already and some customers already run it in Production. However, as it is the long term supported release, I thought I blog about some interesting information and features around 19c to(…)

SQL Server 2019 Accelerated Database Recovery – Instantaneous rollback and aggressive log truncation

In my previous article about Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR), I wrote mostly about the new Persistent Volume Store (PVS), how important it was important in the new(…)

Documentum – Large documents in xPlore indexing

Documentum is using xPlore for the Full Text indexing/search processes. If you aren’t very familiar with how xPlore is working, you might want to know how it is possible to index large documents or you might be confused about some(…)

Documentum Administrator in a Container

In article A Small Footprint Docker Container with Documentum command-line Tools, we presented a possible way to containerize the usual Documentum clients idql, iapi, dmawk and dmdocbroker.

A Small Footprint Docker Container with Documentum command-line Tools

The aim here is to have a minimalist container with the usual Documentum clients idql, iapi, dmawk and dmqdocbroker. Documentum Administrator (DA) could also be a useful addition to our toolbox. We will show how to containerize it in(…)

Migrating Oracle database from windows to ODA

Nowadays I have been working on an interesting customer project where I had to migrate windows oracle standard databases to ODA. The ODAs are X7-2M Models, running version 18.5. This version is coming with Red Hat Enterprise Linx 6.10 (Santiago).

Using non-root SQL Server containers on Docker and K8s

This is something that I waited for a while, in fact since SQL Server 2017 … and the news came out on Wednesday 09th September 2019. Running(…)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 – Stratis

The Initial Release (8.0.0) of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is available since May 2019. I’ve already blogged about one of its new feature (AppStream) during the Beta version. In this post I will present(…)